俱舍論記 3.152

3.152

Regarding 'A noble one not yet departed from desire... up to: because of having no double gender': this is the answer, explaining the lower two lines. This explains that a noble one who has not departed from desire may possess at maximum nineteen. As appropriate, two untainted [faculties] are excluded, and one gender is excluded—either the female or male faculty is eliminated, because noble ones do not have both genders, so they do not possess twenty. Furthermore, the Nyāyānusāra explains: 'To say "one gender" is because none with both genders or with no gender attains the noble Dharma.' Since that treatise states that none without gender attains the noble Dharma, this shows that either the male or female faculty is definitely possessed; how then could one enter noble status upon gradual relinquishment? The resolution to this difficulty is as explained earlier.